How did Apple do in 2022? In this video, I rank each product released and more! Follow me on Mastodon - snazzy.fm/mdn Follow me on Instagram - / snazzyq
Maybe reparability ought to be a criteria they’re judged on too. Just like with sustainability, the corporations won’t learn if we don’t shame them for it.
@Phillip Banes I try to and it’s somewhat easier to do so in India, even though we rely on coal for much of our energy needs, than it is elsewhere. I fail more often than I succeed, but I certainly like to think I do better than I would do if I didn’t try to live a sustainable life.
@Phillip Banes things like living a vegan life are easier cause 50% of the population live on a plant based diet out of religious consideration. Indian Traditional handicrafts never died out either so my clothes and shoes are made 20 minutes off where I live with locally sourced cotton and leather.
@@phillipbanes5484What a misguided question. Even if the OP doesn’t live a sustainable life that doesn’t exonerate Apple from the responsibility of making their products more environmentally friendly. Their products are used by 100’s of millions of people. Therefore, their adherence to more sustainability has an exponentially greater impact on the environment than the actions of one human. AND directly effects the ability of that person to live a more sustainable life.
And with the introduction of series 7 we got a bigger screen, i dont get it how its a smaller update than the series 8 temp sensor. No mention of the iphone 14’s repairability… i am only 9mins into this video in normal case i would say not worth to watch it but still love this guy. Year ending is always hard.
Lightning isnt really that bad. Its annoying to have am extra cable but compared to USB-C, its more forgiving. In the sense that if something breaks, the cable does, not the port. Somehow managed to break the inner usb c connector on a device of mine
Count me in on HATING the new System Preference format. 😡 The redeeming fact is that from this vid, I've learnt that it's not just me. I love my Mac Studio but am lukewarm about the Studio Display, so again, I'm on board. My biggest headache comes from my iPhone 12 Pro Max which demands a daily charge, despite me being phon-phobic & rarely using data.
your grade for macOS was waaaaaaaay too nice 😅 using multiple monitors still sucks, it still completely fails at arranging windows when you plug your laptop into an external monitor, notifications are still nonsense, the settings app is somehow worse than it was before, and it's just overall got all the same bugs that it's had for years. and instead of the tiling window manager we all wanted, we got a bad port of a bad ipad window manager.
I needed to find the setting to adjust the time my screensaver kicks in and when my system goes to sleep. Looked around for this simple setting for like 5 min before I finally just decided to google it. I looked at display settings, battery and energy settings, and screen saver settings. Couldn’t find it! After I googled it I learned it got moved to the effing LOCK SCREEN setting!!! It was so frustrating!!!
I agree on most points, and the camera being on the wrong spot is definitely a huge miss by Apple…HOWEVER, the pencil hover is an absolute game-changer if your usage of an iPad Pro is for digital art. This takes it to a whole new level for most digital artists and generally makes it where I don’t use my cintiq anymore, a device that is both far more expensive, and not something I would take with me to the couch and paint (unless I don’t consider blood circulation on my legs to be a pressing issue, or constant trips to a chiropractor). It just is one of those things where the intended usage makes a dramatic issue. For me the m2 iPad Pro is literally my favorite electronic device of the last decade.
This is the problem with 90% of tech RU-vidrs. The only professional activity for electronic devices seem to be video editing and photography. And they totally downgrade the iPad when it’s been a revolution in digital art. Gone are the days carrying a sketchbook and a pencil case where my inks leak every few months. And my paper clutter is basically nil. The last thing I want on my iPad is a desktop OS, and my art apps use the device plenty. Still reach my procreate layer limits with 16gb of RAM. The hover feature is a big deal, and I hope apple doesn’t turn it into a touch screen MacBook like the RU-vidrs seem to be begging for. 😢
professor snazzy ! :D u made a mistake sir 1) apple watch series 5 got 'always on display' & series 6 got spo2 sensor :) 2) series 5 has 1000nits LTPO display (onwards except SE) (remember a lady professor says 1nits = light of 1 candle, so 1000nits = 1000 candles in watch 5 add) 3) the original SE debuted in 2020 with watch 6, not in 2018 with watch 4 still a big fan of your work :) happy new year !! :)
also there was another mistake where he stated that the Apple TV got thread support for the first time with the homepod mini being the first 19:03 . Thats wrong the 2021 Apple TV 4K had thread
Thanks for the warning on Ventura. I've been putting off the upgrade figuring I'd like them figure out the first gen bugs and haven't done any research into it. It sounds like a solid no go.
There are at least a couple changes in Ventura that make things worse, IMHO, and other than “keep up with the latest security updates”, I haven’t seen _any_ benefits from Ventura. So I haven’t upgraded yet. Plus, it’s nice to have the same OS everywhere, and my laptop is too old for Ventura. Maybe the next version of macOS will fix all the bad UX that Monterey introduced?
Honestly I like lightning more as a physical connector, since it's both slimmer and also I find it more durable, since if anything the cable breaks, not the connector itself (which has happened on usb-c before). It's just that lightning is so darn slow
I have to use teams for work, and I've generally enjoyed the simplicity of the calendar app, which nearly matches the versatility of the calendar pane in teams. meanwhile, you can see missed calls in the phone app, so it makes me wish calendar, phone, messages, mail, and FaceTime fully opened up so that teams/discord/slack/whatsapp/etc could just plug into each of them. less is more. for the same reason I don't like having 2 of every app on a Samsung phone, I don't want two calendar apps, two call apps, two meeting apps, two mail apps, etc, etc....
@@Aashishkebab yeah the dumbest thing about teams is the split between channels and chats. Why is it the only messaging app that splits threads and chats like that?
@@Bliss467 where and how notifications show up in Teams is also pretty user-hostile. And there’s the fact that by default it opens documents within the Teams window but doesn’t have a “close” or “go back” button when you’re done with the document (because it assumes that whatever you’re using will have implemented one, _within_ the document frame, but not all MS apps even do that, so why MS would assume everybody else is doing that when even they aren’t is beyond me). Or the fact that there’s no good way to, say, view a document within Teams and look at a chat or conversation at the same time. And let’s not forget that the search engine in Teams doesn’t search Wiki pages in Teams. So, y’know, great to have a built-in wiki in your team collaboration environment, but I hope you don’t want to actually reference the wiki contents after you’ve written them down. MSTeams has a *lot* of contenders for “dumbest design decision”.
I’d agree with all the grades bar one. Ventura, the system preferences app is so bad that it drops the grade down to D- The biggest gain for me this year was multi app / window support on the iPad. I just hope they double down and nail those bugs, the worst being the keyboard input bug whereby you type but it doesn’t register.
As someone who is not shy about buying new versions of electronics well before I actually NEED an upgrade (iPhone every year for example)...I think it says a lot about the iPad Pro that I'm still rocking my 2018 model. It's literally the oldest piece of Apple tech I have now.
Thank you, I’m not the only one who hates the new “System Settings” app! Haven’t updated my MBP 14 either, although were “lucky” to try it on my friend’s Mac. Absolutely awful, got completely lost browsing through, even though I have iPhones, iPads and Macs since 2010. Apple, please bring back the old “System Preferences” or at least give us the option to switch back to it!
After getting an M1 MacBook last year I've slowly been getting into more Apple products. Overall after deep diving into Apple products these year seems like a slow but steady move forward, which isn't bad, I'd say most products they're putting out right now are pretty satisfactory. I'm even willing to pay full price for those new AirPods. Also glad to see someone else who feels the same way I do about smart watches. Fitness tracking is nice, but otherwise I don't see the point if I have a phone. Certainly not good enough for me to give up a nice time piece.
This is HANDS DOWN the best video I've seen through the whole year. As a person who had his Apple Super Cycle this year (Every 5 Years), I got a MacStudio Ultra (128GB), Apple Studio Display, Apple Watch Ultra, iPhone 14 ProMax, Apple AirPods Pro 2 and New Apple TV 4K. I agree with the rating given to each and every product. Overall I've been utterly impressed, especially with the Main Camera (RAW Mode) of the iPhon e 14 Pro Max (Upgraded from a Xr) and the wonderful MacStudio with M1 Ultra. I'm a Booly-Wood film editor and just love this machine. Was performing a few tests, my previous feature length Bollywood film (2 Hours length) took about 2 hours 10min. to export (1080p h.264 from 1080 ProRes Proxy) on a 2020 iMac. Towards the end of the project, one had to make multiple exports of the movie to be given out to various departments, needless to say, it took a lot of time and waiting in there studio before wrapping up the day. The new system via my testing takes about 9 minutes on a h.264 export and 3 minutes on ProRes Proxy to export the whole film! Like WOW! Not to mention the general feel of the timeline is like butter. Insane! For the Studio Display, it is overpriced, but there is nothing like there in the market. Wanted a good display with excellent speakers and a good enough web cam. This monitor gives me that. The display is vibrant and crisp, the speakers are insane and waking up the monitor from sleep is like waking up an iPad (which is instant). Frankly speaking, the display quality is so good that if one is not told the specs of the screen, I can easily mistake it for a Mini LED monitor. Moreover, The Studio Display not only gives me 3 USBC ports (thus eliminating the use of a hub), but also clears the clutter on my table which otherwise would have been caused by purchasing separate Audio Monitors and Web Cam. All in all, the value proposition of the Studio Display is worse on paper than in actual usage. Can it be cheaper, You bet, but is it a competent product - ABSOLUTELY!
And respect to you too,you seem to be the only sensible tech reviewer left here in India who doesn't just make videos paid for by brands to praise their products.
The new systems settings on Ventura actually gave me an anxiety attack one evening. Apple decided to show me a picture from a near fatal collision I had on a bicycle as a background. It took me more than 20 mins to try to figure out how to point the background photos to pictures that I actually wanted to see. Absolutely garbage decision making on their part.
The notifications alone on iOS16 drops it down to an F grade for me. Important phone calls and iMessages get hidden behind important but not as important reminders. I have yet to update to Ventura. At first I didn't realize it had been released. Then I never got around to updating, After hearing some features in setting were removed or harder to find I may wait and see what we have in store for whatever comes after Ventura.
It baffles me how iOS has always had awful handling of notifications. From iOS 5 to 16 it's always been utter trash. Notifications on Android are been much better.
2:39 I love the idea of an AOD for my iPhone, but apparently not in the way that anyone else does: - wallpaper: whatever. Off is fine. Dimmed or blurred is fine. Full-intensity seems a waste, but I wouldn’t mind provided the battery life was still good. - time/date: don’t need it. In fact, want it gone. I was _so_ happy to discover that iOS 16 introduced the ability to not show the time on the lockscreen! And then so frustrated when it turns out only Apple’s built-in Sleep Focus Mode provides that option. That brings a whole bunch of other baggage with it, tying into things like sleep tracking, that make using that as my default mode a no-go. And sleep is the only time I _want_ the time displayed on the lockscreen: if I roll over in the middle of the night and peek at my phone, it’s to see what time it is, and I don’t want to have to fumble with unlocking it, getting Face ID properly aligned, etc., when I’m barely awake. Or with accidentally turning it on blinding bright. The rest of the time, I don’t need the time in half-inch letters constantly staring at me. At best it’s a waste of screen real estate. At worst it’s agitating. If I need to know the time, I can unlock my phone. - I want the same sorts of widgets on an always-on display that I have on my Home Screen or the widgets page: full-color, large, interactive, and possibly live-updating. Not the little simplified tiny buttons, almost overshadowed by the time, that we have. My ideal always-on display would have my to-do list taking up about 2/3 of the screen, and then a couple small-square widgets (probably a pomodoro timer and my food tracker) and then a notifications area. That’s it. Don’t need the time or the date or the weather or any of that clutter. Don’t need to see my wallpaper. Just want my to-do list _always_ there at a glance, even without unlocking my phone.
Your grades are your grades, but not upgrading to macOS Ventura because of the settings app being so terrible should at least warrant a C or worse. Not updating to a new version should result in a failing grade or something close.
Are we grading the products or the delta between the products and their prior generations? iPad Pro, while flawed, is the best performance tablet on the market to this day. How is it an F?
I feel you soo hard on the mac is not touchscreen thing!! I had a MacBook pro after having a Windows machine all my life. Currently living with a loaner windows machine until a comparable laptop to the mbp 14 inch launches. I cannot be productive in MacOS anymore I hate how everything feels designed for touch and so child like.
I agree with the complains about the studio display but after using one as an AIO docking solution for my M1 pro MacBook Pro since it launched in March, the studio display is EASILY my favorite docking solution for the Mac. A single cable turns it into a 27” iMac and while the materials are overly extravagant, they do match the build of the Mac perfectly. I would not recommend it to anyone but if you have the money and want one, you’ll enjoy it.
Great video Quinn. One thing I found was wrong is the previous generation Apple TV 4K also had thread support. It is very useful with my Nanoleaf lightbulbs.
One thing that wasn’t a new product, but was IMO amazing was that Apple had M1 Macbook Pros on sale during Black Friday season for around $500 off. For a pretty good product at the original price, that made it a really good buy at the lower price.
I’ve been mostly happy with the 14 PM camera. But has anyone else has issues with tap to focus not working in some lighting situations? Seems like the phone struggles to auto select the main shooter or telephoto. For me it’s a situation where I’d prefer full manual control.
Great points Quinn and Happy New Year - can someone in the thread or SnazzyLabs itself please make a recommendation as to which monitor to get currently for work, similar to the current StudioDisplay but cheaper? Thank you!
I was surprised to hear your thoughts on iPad OS. - I use my 12.9” iPad Pro as my primary personal computer. I love iPad OS 16. I use the features when I want them, when they best suit whatever I’m doing. If it’s playing a game, Stage manager is turned off. When I’m adding a gingerbread cookie recipe to my favorite recipe app from a website, Stage manager was great. I use the features of the operating system just like the hardware of my setup. If I need the Magic Keyboard, I pop it on. If not, I pluck my iPad off. The iPad and its evolving software, is a refreshing, new reimagining of the traditional computing experience. And I love it.
I think it really depends on your workflow. For some people, everything that they do is supported. For others, not everyone is supported and it is more annoying to switch between devices than it is to use the MacBook air alone.
I had a series 3 for years and just upgraded to a series 7. Soo to someone who upgraded from a 6 to 7 may not notice a difference. But with my situation I noticed almost immediately
I think Apple's main sins are overpricing the 1TB iPhone 14 Pro and the new 1TB 11 inch iPad Pro. That's £1,649 I'll never get back! So that my Dad can replace his vintage iPad Mini with a later iPad that can run the apps he needs for work, I got myself the infamous iPad 10 so he can have my iPad Air 3.
You have to remember some of the products exist just to meet certain price points for other countries. A $100 price difference is a lot in some countries
Well SnazzyQ, I think your analysis is just really great, you’ve been very fair, criticized where it’s deserved and gave points where they are deserved. Great work.
Correction: The AOD for Apple Watch debuted on Series 5, not 6 Karaoke Mode on Apple Music is technically called Apple Music Sing Apple Pay Later has yet to launch
I'm bored with Apple, if I wasn't tied to the Apple Ecosystem I would move on. Not an Apple hater, in fact an Apple fan. My iMac late 2015, has no OS updates now, my iPhone XS Max does everything I want it to do, and my iPad Pro 2020 is an excellent tablet. I am done chasing the latest and greatest Apple device, I'm good with owning older devices.
i watched the whole video without it being sped up and actually paid attention to listen to it the whole time, that's not something we find every day on RU-vid these days
The regular iPads are good enough for work place where it’s just simple charting done by lots of different staff. They hold up well since it’s basically just the one application being used. 😊
So are we going to ignore Iphone SE like a distant relative nonone talks about? Also, Happy new year Snzzy Labs. Looking forward to more videos in 2023.
mini lineup has been better than ever iPad Mini and iPhone Mini where Solid Solid Money for Value. Would rather buy another iPhone Mini 13 than iPhone 14 or 14 Plus. Bring Back The Mini.
1:38 - Tapping the Dynamic Island should be used to bring up instant view of information and a long press or a tap in addition to the instant view should bring you into the app itself. Not the otherway around. And about the M2 MacBook Air 2022 - I got mine recently in the last month, new, and I love it. I had the 8GB 512GB and took it back for the 16GB and 1TB model becasuse I loved it enough to commit to YEARS of using it. So upgraded instantly.
I’ve been using the iPad as my main computer since the release of ios16, while iPad OS was still in beta, and although by then it was extremely buggy, it really changed the iPad experience making it the most versatile device and also more fun to use, which led me to completely stop using my Mac. Specially after the monitor support. One thing I particularly think tech reviewers get EXTREMELY WRONG about it is closing its usage to their little world. As a teacher and businessman, the ipad is the best tech I own, and its software even though not perfect, is undoubtedly way better than what 80% of you preach. Sometimes I think you wanted it to be something that it is not, and you won’t relent it, while many of us are just enjoying and making great things with it.
Am I the only one who actually likes the Ventura settings app? Yes the layout and order of sections makes no sense, but the search is so much better compared to the 'System Preferences' of old, that I don't even bother looking for specific settings, I just search for them, it only takes a second.
Yes, System Settings app is horrible. Tiny text for us oldsters, can't resize and some features are ONLY accessible if you search for them such as some keyboard options. Nuts.
I hate that Apple removed the ability to launch programs in the background in macOS Ventura. Now upon a reboot I need to close all of the app's windows first
I have the base M2 MBA and the base M1 Studio Max and I think your ratings are spot on for those devices (no personal experience with any of the others).
From reviews of medical professionals and users the lack of ECG, Temperature and spO2 sensors on Apple Watch SE isn't that important, i.e. we don't really use/need them. More over it showed really good GPS accuracy. So, overall, it's a great smart watch.
I thought the blue-ish blob visible on the left hand side of the background when Quinn's on screen was a fault with my new monitor. It turns out it's part of the background. I'm happy I don't have to speak to Costco customer services.
System Settings on Ventura - yeesh... why? You got it spot on, it's not necessarily past muscle memory per se, it's that it's laid out nonsensically to the point of near unsuitability. If it's to be changed, at least have a good think about the device you're using it on. It's a royal pain having to scroll down to passwords every single time.
Great video as always, Quinn! Keep up the amazing work. I've been watching the M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14s for a bit, hoping to catch one on a really crazy sale.
Hi Snazzy Labs. As always, I truly enjoy your channel and reviews so much! I feel so disappointed and betrayed by Apple’s seemingly new business model of monetizing their loyal consumers with ads, even on paid subscriptions, without the option of turning it off, while they promote privacy and limited ad tracking. It seems very deceitful and monopolistic. I have sent feedback emails to Apple regarding this disappointment. I wonder how many of your viewership feels the same and if Apple is hearing it’s consumers? Can you do another video focusing on this issue and engaging your followers? Thank you!
Agree that the 14 was disappointing, but 2 improvements not mentioned: (1) much more repairable - now only like $170 to replace back instead of $350 for the non-pro. (1) the newer cellular modem got it a bit better battery life over the 13. Studio display should be like a C or D not a B-. You're talking $2000 for 8 year old monitor tech if you want a real stand with it.
Bought a Mac Studio with two Studio displays mainly for software development and it's _by far_ the best workstation I've ever had. It's small, fast, and silent. The displays were definitely overpriced, but ffs, for years I wished for a 5k iMac display without the iMac, and here it is, who am I to complain? About macOS: I know that people HATE redesigns of system settings for some reason (not only this one), but honestly, the new app is just fine. Surely not perfect yet, but Apple managed to completely redesign it in just one OS iteration, while Windows 11 after _another_ partly system settings redesign still ships some of the same crappy old panels that are virtually unchanged since Windows 95.
All the new hardware for me was announced in the September keynote, and I bought it all, but I felt it was kind of a mistake I didn’t stop and think first About Ads in Apple services, and how Apple’s first party tracking is becoming more like Google’s, About game streaming and how much it stinks on Apple devices, and how Apple may have a beautiful vision of simplicity for iOS, but they have been terrible stewards of that vision over the last few years as evidenced by the lack of game streaming apps on the App Store, tense developer relations, the lack of good Mac ports of games either from Arcade, iOS App Store, or other stores, And about how maybe Apple’s just gotten too big! I like my new iPhone 14 Pro Max. It’s much better than my XS Max was and no longer requires a battery case (which has to be replaced every 18-24 months because it wares out) My Apple Watch Ultra and AirPods Pro 2 really are gems! But my hardware focus has drifted away from Apple and toward PC parts and smart glasses. I want a big TV in front of my face in my glasses, and I want a computer that flies through Office, Adobe Software, and many browser tabs for work, and turns games up to 11. In a way I’m glad Apple isn’t really competing there, as it leaves more of the computer entertainment pie for other companies.
Biggest thing for me is the lack of fully fledged desktop class iPad Apps. For example, MS Word needs to include a ‘desktop mode’ where the full features that you find on the desktop version are available. Even if this feature was only enabled when a keyboard is detected, it would greatly improve the productivity of iPad. An iPad does not need to run Mac OS to be a computer, but it needs the apps to support the desktop features. It’s not entirely Apple’s fault, but also the app developers for limiting what is possible on the incredibly capable hardware of the iPad.
Definitely agree on the dynamic island. When it was unveiled it felt like such a creative idea, but more and more it just seems like it adds even more unnecessary ways to navigate.
I feel like the Dynamic Island will eventually be a repeat of 3D Touch (which I still miss dearly.) It’ll be cool for a year, then people won’t really use it, or care about it.
I hope you’re wrong. But it has the same problems: • not on all devices, so anything you do with it, you have to provide an alternative way to do, so why not just use that alternative way everywhere? • no iPad equivalent. I really think that’s the one that killed 3D Touch. Though unlike 3D Touch, I don’t think this is nearly the potential game changer. 3D Touch was a massive improvement to touchscreen ergonomics and UX, and a real improvement over anything on Android or Windows Mobile. And done right (specifically: make hard-press the secondary interaction method, double-tap tertiary, and long-press rhe quaternary interaction method) would’ve been a massive improvement in UX. But that would’ve required force-sensitive hardware in iPads, and ideally on MacBook trackpads (to maximize consistency of experience), and a clean break with all previous iOS devices, which obviously would have to keep long-press in place of hard-press. But if anybody could get away with that, it would be Apple: they’ve reversed the direction of basic swipes and repurposed key gestures several times just in the ~15 years of iOS. Once more wouldn’t’ve been that much of a problem, _if_ all iOS hardware going forward include 3D Touch.
This year, I tried to help a friend with his iPhone settings, I am an android user myself I only played a bit with the first, second, and fourth and now the 11 iPhones. The settings app is like Santa's present bag, they just throw all the settings one on top of one another and call it a day, horrible.
I feel like if an update has a change so bad that you wont upgrade machines to it, speaking of ventura, that by it self makes it much lower than a B. Also feel like if the ipad pro gets an F so should the M2 MBP as at least the ipad is still the best tablet available, no excuse for the MBP to exist. Otherwise pretty on point!
The grade for Ventura is weird. B is a passing grade, but you’re refusing to upgrade machines to it because of the settings app, which means it fails your standards for software worth upgrading.
Very fair points raised, I don't think any of your statements are bad, Apple just needs to listen to users more instead of serving up what they think we want.
